Quotes About Education

Hugh Auld was wise to fear slave literacy. Reading could kindle in a slave a desire for learning and for a personal future, thus undermining slavery's consistent effort to stamp out any sense of self-worth.

From 1776 to 1976 just five books reigned over economics in nearly unbroken succession: Smith's Wealth of Nations, Ricardo's Principles, Mill's Principles, Marshall's Principles, and Samuelson's Economics. What they lack in imaginative titles, they make up in endurance.

He argued that a woman should have equal rights in family property and should be educated, especially in matters of law and finance: "it will be like providing the women of civilized society with a pocket dagger for self-protection."27 Most important, though, Fukuzawa encouraged an independent spirit.

Great teachers focus on expectations. Other teachers focus on rules. The least effective teachers focus on the consequences of breaking the rules.

We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

The educated class knows the value of good health to quality of life and is willing to pay for it. The poor are more likely to trap themselves in a culture of smoking, poor nutrition, obesity, drugs, and only sporadic attention from a physician.

how to prepare a young generation to run a large, modern, and complex industrial society. Nearly

The mark of a good officer, Wegener repeatedly told his youngsters, was willingness to admit he had something yet to learn.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

you also learn a lot of things, because he's a dazzlingly effective teacher.

Army instructors are taught that if the student fails to learn, it is because the instructor failed to teach properly.

supported by Dr. Paul Bellow—Temple University, Philadelphia

he'd learned that in the field of medicine, the really smart ones were the teachers, unlike the rest of society.

We have a job. A job! Our reward after years of education! We worked hard in our youth in order to work hard again in our adulthood. A job! The summit of our lives!

Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that's it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It's a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.

Instead of long lectures followed by exercises, most of our classes at the d.school give students a little instruction up front and then get them working on a project or a challenge. We follow up in debriefs to reflect on what succeeded—and what can be learned from things that didn't work.

Some subjects mixed well with weed, but Chemistry wasn't one of them.

It was one thing to have a professor tell you that gender was socially constructed, and another to hear it from a person who had actually done construction work.

The past is not alive to them the way it is to Georges; they do not remember—and thus do not see the reality of things. That reality is the dream Georges has come to embody: that a black man can become a nobleman and be better educated and more talented and powerful than the white plantation owners.

Despite his brilliance, he missed a basic secondary education, for lack of scholarship funds. He believed that the rejection was due to Napoleon's hatred for his father: "this hatred extended even to me, for in spite of the attempts made on my behalf by my father's old comrades, I could never gain entrance to any military school or civilian college.

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.